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Confusion as NO ONE turns up for 'huge' pro Brexit demo in Doncaster [View all]
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/confusion-no-one-turns-huge-pro-brexit-demo-doncaster-825135Leave campaigners had called on thousands of protesters to gather outside the Civic Offices in Sir Nigel Gresley Square in the town centre at 10am this morning in anger at Britain’s failure to leave the EU by Boris Johnson’s October 31 deadline.
But the square was deserted and the event appears to have been pulled at the eleventh hour with organisers blaming the postponement on a lack of donations, protesters and the forthcoming General Election.
Former Vote Leave campaigners were planning to stage protests in Doncaster, Sunderland, London and Boston at 10am as part of a day of civil disobedience which also includes a mass cancellation of TV licences, lighting of beacons across the country, blockades of fuel depots and motorway go slows.
But organiser Jay Beecher admitted on Twitter that the protest had been called off due to a lack of funding and shortage of protesters.
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